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2021-11-14 Africa Subsaharan
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IS-linked group kills Nigerian general, destroys buildings
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[Al Ahram] An Islamic State-linked extremist group blamed for killing thousands in Nigeria and neighboring West African countries has killed four members of the Nigerian army, including a general, the army said Saturday.
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in West Africa Province (ISWAP) killed the security personnel during an attack in the Askira Uba area of Borno state, where a war against a rebel insurgency has been centered for more than a decade.
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A Nigerian army spokesperson said its troops killed ``several'' ISWAP members in response to the attack, which residents told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named had also targeted a military base and unfolded over three days.
Hassan Chibok, a community leader in the neighboring Chibok council, said a classroom building and other structures were destroyed by the krazed killer bad boys.
``The primary school (in Askira Uba) was burned down. The primary healthcare center was also burned down, and the house of the village head,'' he said.
``In the fierce encounter, which is still raging at the time of filing this report, troops supported by the air component of OPHK (Operation HADIN KAI, the code name for the military operation in the northeast) have destroyed five A-Jet, two A-29, two dragon combat vehicles and nine gun trucks,'' the army's spokesperson, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, said in a statement.
The development is yet another sign that the IS-linked group remains a threat in the northeastern part of Africa's most populous country despite the Nigerian military's repeated claims of successes in the war against insurgency especially after ISWAP lost two leaders in the last few months.
ISWAP split from Boko Haram
 ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth? , or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ...
in 2016. The rival krazed killer groups remain united in an insurgency against the Nigerian government that has expanded to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
Militants in the IS-linked group have sought to consolidate their position in the Lake Chad basin and northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
following the death of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
...the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down. Last seen in 2017, sneaking into Cameroon while wearing a burka...
Despite losing two of its leaders - Abu Musab al-Barnawi and successor Malam Bako in the last few months, ISWAP continues to target the Nigerian military and those who aid soldiers. 
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